Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1976
"Young and green, only seventeen."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Young and green, only seventeen."
What's actually sung
"Young and sweet, only seventeen." Dancing Queen — ABBA (1976)
Why the ear defaults
Agnetha's Swedish-inflected English softens the "sw-" in "sweet" toward something closer to "gr-." The wrong version fits the teenage-inexperience theme almost as well.
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